Wire-bound box.



J. SHELLENBEEGBR, WIRE BOUND BOX.

APPLIGATION FILED MAR. 2a, 1911,

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opposite faces thereof, battens (Z, beingpreferably interposed between the wires and boards so that the staples pass through and secure the battens and thus secure the wires, battens and boards together with the wires and battens practically continuous or unbroken throughout the length of the blank or web, and although l prefer to employ battens, I do not wish to limit all features of my present invention thereto. The web or blank is then bent around the end heads and secured preferably so that one end portion of the blank will form a side of the box, and intermediate portions thereof will form the bottom and opposite side of the box While the opposite end portion of the blank will form the top or cover of the box.

In the example thus described, the blank is composed of four sections, the wire bindinfr being continuous across. and between said sections to unite and bind the same to gether. Each section is made up of several parallel thin boards or strips e, transversely and opp'ositely beveled (at 2') throughout their lengths with said beveled edges abutting to form bevel lap joints. Each section is spaced, on the wire binding, a suitable distance from the adjacent sections so that `the meeting edges of the sections will form butt joints or will overlap, see j?, in the completed box at the angles thereof. To accomplish this result, the outer longitudinal edges vof the end strips or boards c, of each section are usually cut o square, about as shown, andy spaced fromv the adjacent squarely cut oil edges of the end boards of the next adjacent sections.

The longitudinal beveled edges 2', are bev eled from the inner to the outer face of the boards, and at cach bevel lap joint, one bevel is at the inner face of its board while the opposite vand abuttin'g bevel is at the outer face of its board. ln making the blank, the bevel faces are fitted to tightly or squarely abut and are thus held by the clenched staples holding the wire binding and boards together but the staples ,are preferably so arranged as not to. pass through' the beveled edgesor faces 2. they might cause the same to split when the boards shrink, and hence in shrinking the beveled faces .can

slip or slide on each other.r

Thebeveled faces are formed comparatively long and of a comparatively slight angle so as lto allow` for maximum possibility of shrinkage without such complete separation of such edges as to completely open the joint formed thereby and in this connection it should be noted t the w' e binding so cooperates with the evel edges as to maintain them together to extent as necessary to form a 'oint with such edges lono'itudinall t o t9 bracing each other even in the presenceof considerable shrinkage. By employing such formation, l am enabled to employ Anarrow pressure and weight of the load in the box. It' is evident that various changes and by the wire binding and 'by the outward modifications might be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my inventiony and hence l do not wish 'to limit myself to the exact disclosure hereof.

What l claim is Y 1. A wire bound box blank consisting of series of spaced box wall forming sections and wire binding traversing and stapled lto all'ofv said sections and bridging the spaces between and uniting said sections, each 'seo tion consisting of several parallel thin narN row boards stapled to and held together by said wire binding and having their longitudinal. meeting edges oppositely beveled from the inner to the outer'faces thereof to'V 2. A wire bound box blank consisting of box -wall forming sections forming butt joints at -theirmeeting longitudinal edges' and 'Wire binding traversing and uniting all of said sections and secured. thereto, each section consisting of several parallel boards abutting throughout the lengths of their adjacent edges and free to slip'on each other under shrinkage, said edges being oppositely beveled from the inner faces of the boards, to .the outer faces thereof and overlapping and held together by said wire binding.

3. A wirevbound box. blank consisting of box wall forming sections,.wire binding traversing and uniting all `of said sections, and securing staples stra'ddling said wire binding and passed through said sections, each section consisting of several parallel boards abutting ,at their adjacent longitudinal edges, said edges being oppositely beveled box having wall form-V and wire binding traversing said boards and secured to each board and maintaining said edges overlapping in the presence of shrinkage, the longitudinal edges of said Sections being ont off squarely and abutting.

.A Wire bound boX `having Wall formed sections composed of longitudinal boards beveled fromtheir-inner to their outer faces, abutting and overlapping along their meet- 4Ving longitudinal edges, Wire binding traversing fsa-id boards, end securing Staples,

securing said Wire binding thereto and passing through said boards. In testimony whereof I ajiix my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

JOHN SHELLENBERGER. Witnesses:

E. A. GREEN, J.`J. STEPHENS. 

